“I'd have to lock the door of the paint room. He wouldn't allow anyone in. I was like a prisoner.”

“When you follow your bliss… doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors, and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else.”

“For Heaven's sake, send help! There's a man trying to get into my room and the door's locked!”

“The way the neurotic sees it: bars on his door mean that he's locked in; bars on your door mean that he's locked out.”

“More than iron doors, more than walls, it is the tiny peephole that really makes the prisoner feel locked in.”

“Why should he remember her? Why should she remember him? She had other things to think about. She was a grown woman. She had to face life. Even if all life had to show her was a locked door, and behind the locked door, no room.”

“Sometimes the prison of fear is so powerful there's no need to lock the cell doors. Your fear creates a willingness to self-imprison.”

“Anyone who can steal the king's seal ring can manage the locks on his record room.”

“The room is like a cave, and has books I love in it. The main door was closed up and a smaller opening was made under the stairs. (I went away while all this was happening.) The furniture is locked in, and part of me is locked in too, or I hope it is, although I often made a bid to escape. I have left instructions that I would like to be buried here when I die or a bit before, the cave bricked up.”

“don't be ashamed of
anything; I guess God meant it all
like
locks on
doors.”